Pipe dreams: yum-based anaconda a step towards on-line yum-based upgrades?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 15:35 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:32:03PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I suspect the 'interesting' parts are when your yum 'distroupgrade'
> > > plugin starts doing things that are totally unrelated to package
> > > management.
> > +1
> > The problem isn't packages, not really, it's all the crazy stuff about
> > relabeling lvm partitions or  migrating major portions of
> > infrastructure.
> 
> Right, that's why I'm not at all suggesting "normal" yum ought to take care
> of it. Crack-riddled hacks are why we have yum plugins, right? :)
> 

you _really_ don't want to do a lot of those things on a running system.

REALLY

-sv